TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 27, 2022

New court records show the City of Memphis is denying or objecting to several claims in a negligence lawsuit filed against them by rape victim Alicia Franklin. In the 25-page document filed yesterday, attorneys for the city object to the claim that the abduction and murder of jogger Eliza Fletcher could have been avoided if police had properly investigated Franklin’s 2021 rape. In the new filing, called an answer to the plaintiff’s request for admissions, the city admits it didn’t dust for fingerprints at the Franklin scene, didn’t seek to interrogate the alleged rapist and murderer Cleotha Abston and didn’t request expedited DNA testing. The Daily Memphian has the full story.